The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

CAPE GUAEDAFUI.S81coast range draws continually nearer to the shore, and such peaks as the Golis, theAnkor (3,700 feet), the pyramidal Hais (6,100 feet), the Airensit (5,300 feet), nearthe Yaffar pass, stand at an average distance of not more than 18 or 20 miles fromthe sea. The intervening space is largely occiipied by rocky scarps and bluffs,leaving only here and there a few narrow strips of verdure, generally near themouths of the watercourses.Cape Guardafui and the Somali Seaboard.The eastern extremity of the African " Horn " is carved by deep fissures into116. Cape GTJAKD.im.Scale 1 : 1,050,000.EaEbcFUreenwich640 Feet andupwardsa number of distinct plateaux, huge quadrangular masses above which rise a fewlow eminences. Thus this conspicuous continental headland is limited southwardsby the rockj- bed of the Togueni, which trends in the direction of the Gulf of Aden,and by another fluvial ravine which drains towards the Indian Ocean. Near thewestern edge of this limestone plateau rises the Jebel Karoma (Kurmo), 4,000 feethigh, which still bears the name in a scarcely modified form of the " AromaticMountain " formerly given to it by the Greek navigators. The Gor Ali, lyingmore to the east, has the same altitude, while another crest close to Cape Guardafuistill rises 2,500 above the sea.